tridentfb.c error kernel 2.5.50

tridentfb.c error kernel 2.5.50

[Dominique Arpin]

Hi everybody,

           i have some problem to compile the tridentfd driver on the
           Kernel 2.5.50.I'm not sure this is the right mailinglist to submit my problem, but if u
can help me.This problem doesnt appear on the 2.4.19 kernel. Did I miss something?

gcc -Wp,-MD,drivers/video/.tridentfb.o.d -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686
 -Iarch/i386/mach-generic -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DMODULE  
 -DKBUILD_BASENAME=tridentfb -DKBUILD_MODNAME=tridentfb   -c -o
drivers/video/tridentfb.o drivers/video/tridentfb.cdrivers/video/tridentfb.c:64: field `gen' has incomplete type
drivers/video/tridentfb.c: In function `trident_set_disp':
drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1054: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/video/tridentfb.c: At top level:
drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1086: variable `trident_hwswitch' has
initializer but incomplete typedrivers/video/tridentfb.c:1087: warning: excess elements in struct
initializerdrivers/video/tridentfb.c:1087: warning: (near initialization for
`trident_hwswitch')drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1088: warning: excess elements in struct
initializerdrivers/video/tridentfb.c:1088: warning: (near initialization for
`trident_hwswitch')drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1089: warning: excess elements in struct
initializerdrivers/video/tridentfb.c:1089: warning: (near initialization for
`trident_hwswitch')drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1090: warning: excess elements in struct
initializerdrivers/video/tridentfb.c:1090: warning: (near initialization for
`trident_hwswitch')drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1091: warning: excess elements in struct
initializerdrivers/video/tridentfb.c:1091: warning: (near initialization for
`trident_hwswitch')drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1092: warning: excess elements in struct
initializerdrivers/video/tridentfb.c:1092: warning: (near initialization for
`trident_hwswitch')drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1093: warning: excess elements in struct
initializerdrivers/video/tridentfb.c:1093: warning: (near initialization for
`trident_hwswitch')drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1094: warning: excess elements in struct
initializerdrivers/video/tridentfb.c:1094: warning: (near initialization for
`trident_hwswitch')drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1095: warning: excess elements in struct
initializerdrivers/video/tridentfb.c:1095: warning: (near initialization for
`trident_hwswitch')drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1097: warning: excess elements in struct
initializerdrivers/video/tridentfb.c:1097: warning: (near initialization for
`trident_hwswitch')drivers/video/tridentfb.c: In function `tridentfb_init':
drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1204: `fbgen_switch' undeclared (first use in
this function)drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1204: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
only oncedrivers/video/tridentfb.c:1204: for each function it appears in.)
drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1205: `fbgen_update_var' undeclared (first use
in this function)drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1228: warning: implicit declaration of function
`fbgen_get_var'drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1230: warning: implicit declaration of function
`fbgen_set_disp'drivers/video/tridentfb.c: At top level:
drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1289: unknown field `fb_get_fix' specified in
initializerdrivers/video/tridentfb.c:1289: `fbgen_get_fix' undeclared here (not in a
function)drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1289: initializer element is not constant
drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1289: (near initialization for
`tridentfb_ops.owner')drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1290: unknown field `fb_get_var' specified in
initializerdrivers/video/tridentfb.c:1290: `fbgen_get_var' undeclared here (not in a
function)drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1290: initializer element is not constant
drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1290: (near initialization for
`tridentfb_ops.fb_open')drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1291: `fbgen_set_var' undeclared here (not in a
function)[....]
drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1296: initializer element is not constant
drivers/video/tridentfb.c:1296: (near initialization for `tridentfb_ops')
make[2]: *** [drivers/video/tridentfb.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [drivers/video] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2

My hardware:
laptop presario 1200
TridentCyberblade 8 mb

and sorry for my english :)

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Re: tridentfb.c error kernel 2.5.50

[James Simmons]

>            i have some problem to compile the tridentfd driver on the
>            Kernel 2.5.50.I'm not sure this is the right mailinglist to submit my problem, but if u
> can help me.This problem doesnt appear on the 2.4.19 kernel. Did I miss something?

The framebuffer api has changed. A port of the driver will be done in the
next few releases.